Oracle database on AWS : Security and data protection/privacy

In this fourth part of this series we will be looking at security and more specially data privacy/protection. When planning to move your oracle databases (or any other app) to the aws cloud you will be thinking about how to enforce security and AWS offer many services to help us achieve that. Such services are : Subnets/VPC/Security groups/aws config/aws cloud trail/aws IAM/AWS Secrets Manager/AWS KMS/EBS encryption/AWS GuardDuty/ etc.

But we are not going to focus on that here. Here i want to emphasize on some important aspect when putting our data in aws CLOUD and that’s the privacy of our DATA !

You can say it now :p

Oracle database flashback and clone (COW) using LVM snapshots

As the title of this blog post suggest we will be looking at how to use LVM snapshot to flashback our oracle database to point in time snap or to create a thin clone for what if analysis. I’am taking the oracle database as an example here but it can be any database supporting crash consistent snapshot.

ORACLE database on AWS : Backup and Recovery

In this third blog post of the series Oracle database on the AWS Cloud we will take look at a few ways to backups/recover our oracle databases deployed in AWS cloud.

ORACLE database on AWS : Architecting for HA

When planning to deploy your critical oracle databases in the aws cloud high availability is one of the most critical criteria.

So let’s see what option do we have to deploy a HA oracle databases in the aws cloud whether using oracle RDS or simply an EC2 instances.

ORACLE database on AWS : Licensing and Support

Recently (Few months ago) , i started exploring the AWS cloud services and i can say that it’s pretty interesting ! During my learning journey, i discovered a lot of new and interesting things and also got few certifications 🙂 I decided to start this blog series to share things that may be useful to which ever is thinking about putting there oracle database in the AWS cloud.